Wednesday, 7 December 2016

A dialogue between two friends about importance of sanitation and hygiene

A dialogue between two friends about importance of sanitation
and hygiene

Shafi: Hello, good evening.

Haris: Good evening, Shafi. How are you?

S: Very fine. Thank you and how are you?

H: No to bad. But I'm a little upset.

S: Why, what's worrying you?

H: I'm coming from the bakery. I was very
annoyed with the salesman there. I wanted some mixture and the fellow put his
hand into the jar and started talking it out with his bare hand.

S: The other day I had the same
experience at another bakery. Then I had to give him a piece of my mind. I
wonder why in the bakery and in such places food is not taken with a big spoon.

H: The problem is that they are used to
doing things like that. They don't know that their hands are or could be dirty.
Most customers don't complain and don't even know how unhygienic it is to use
hands to take food.

S: People like us should tell them to use
a spoon instead of their hands.

H: What about the health inspectors?
Don't they se such things when they go to a bakery?

S: These health inspectors should also
insist on the waiters using a pair of tongs to take at snack-bars or
delicatessens.

H: One is filled with nausea at the sight
of somebody serving you food with his hand. It is high time people were
enlightened on such matters.

S: We have progressed in fashion and
risen to affluence but not in matters of sanitation and hygiene.

H: Even in star hotels you wouldn't dare
to go to the kitchen, would you? In ordinary hotels you well seek cooks and
workers, all bare bodies with hair in the armpit and all over, wrapped below the
waist with just a towel and sweat streaming down their faces and bodies.

S: That's the dress of some waiters in
some of our hotels when they serve food. It is the health
inspectors' responsibility to see that waiters are properly dressed.

H: Have you ever bought some tablets or
capsules from a pharmacy? Invariably they are counted with bare hands. Don't
they know that hands sweat? What they should they is to put them in a plastic
plate or something like that and count with a plastic spoon or spatula.

S: I always tell them not to count
with their hands. At first they look at me as if I am a man from the moon. But I
don't Care and insist on their doing it. Naturally they start counting them with
a spoon.

H: their is no harm in others
understanding what is right and what is wrong. haven't you seen people wrapping
bread and other snacks in old newspaper? Do they think these old papers are neat
and clean?

S: Imagine how many people might have
used them? They might have been left in all kinds of dirty places before they
are used as wrappers.

H: It doesn't matter if they are used
to wrap food items that are going to be cooked. Just because we take a both
every morning and wear clean clothes, we are not hygiene. Are we?

S: In hotels I have seen even decently
dressed people throwing bones and other things on the table are on the floor
under the table. The place starts stinking in no time. Can't they be supplied
with bone plates on every table and made to use them?

H: Spitting in public places in
another health hazard. Some people chew betel leaves and spit all over and even
from moving vehicles.

S: No amount of laws can stop all
this. The best things to do is to start teaching children in primary schools how
to be hygiene. We should develop in our little ones a high sense of hygiene and
sanitation. Hygiene should become a habit with people.

H: I wonder when the educationalists
and politicians in power will realize the importance of all these things. But
they are more interested in other things. But they are more interested in other
things. Writing letters to the editors of newspaper only invites counter
arguments. That is my experience.

S: You can't blame the authorities.
for not talking proper action against the culprits. People should help
themselves. These norms can't be imposed on others, they should be imbibed.

H: That reminds me of something I have
always had in my mind, Shafi, when somebody is seriously ill, we can an
ambulance, don't we? What happens when someone dies? The same ambulance is used
to carry the dead body. Is that fair?

S: You are right. People die of
various diseases. Even if the ambulance is disinfected, the sick person shudders
to think that only the previous day a dead person has been taken in the same
stretcher. Why can't hearse be kept to carry the dead?

H: Though it will be expensive, it
can't be avoided. It is something indispensable. The municipal authorities
should find the money to provide a hearse to the public.

S: Let's hope it will be done in due
course. Good night.H: Good night.